Set a password textbox for Visual Studio .NET setup project

In the early release of Microsoft Setup & Deployment projects, we dont have provision called Password Textbox. i.e. If we want to take the input of user id and password while deploying the setup file, user has to key in password also in the normal textbox(i.e. it is visible to anybody). This is an issue in terms of security aspects. Later microsoft realized this and come up with a tool called ORCA.

By using this tool, we can convert a normal textbox to password textbox and other types as per the requirement. For more details about this ORCA tool, please go through the below article that was published at Code Project Mono website.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/setupprjpwd.aspx

As per the above said link, we need to deploy ORCA tool first and then, by using this tool, we can read the control information of .msi file(i.e. setup file). So that, we can easily change the type of the control by chainging the value at Attribute column of respective control. I already implemented this concept for one of my windows application.

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